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"I'm not
modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013. "I have no modesty.
Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility, because
humility comes from the inside out."
Her
story awed millions. The young single mother who worked at strip clubs
to earn a living later danced and sang on stages around the world. A
black woman born poor wrote and recited the most popular presidential
inaugural poem in history. A childhood victim of rape, shamed into
silence, eventually told her story through one of the most widely read
memoirs of the past few decades.
Angelou,
a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her
home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in
a statement. The 86-year-old had been a professor of American studies
at Wake Forest University since 1982.
Source: Associated Press
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